With a background in mechanical engineering and keen interests in transport and environmentally friendly innovations, Rick enjoys maximising the value of his clients’ intellectual property to help them secure investments, achieve their business goals and deliver a more sustainable future. Recognised personally in various well-respected league tables, Rick leads EIP's mechanical and heavy engineering practice group, EIP Dynamics, which has been ranked Gold every year since the Financial Times’ list of “Europe’s Leading Patent Law Firms” began in 2019. Rick has extensive experience advising on patent and registered design matters for clients from start-ups to multinationals, and in-house experience from secondment roles involving due diligence work in investment rounds, capturing innovations and assessing whether to protect them with patents, registered designs or trade secrets, and advising C-suite and R&D members on all matters relating to IP. This combination enables him to provide commercially focussed, pragmatic advice.Since entering the patent profession in 2004, Rick has written 100s of patent applications relating to mechanical, electromechanical and manufacturing technologies. He has worked on inventions relating to, for example, aerospace, marine and automotive systems, micromobility, sustainable fuel systems, railway infrastructure, consumer electronics, FMCG, packaging and dispensers, printing, medical devices, energy harvesting and snack food manufacture. He also advises on patent infringement & validity and freedom-to-operate matters.Rick is also head of EIP's Designs practice group, which has prepared, filed and prosecuted registered design applications for various physical products, GUIs, logos and room interiors. In 2015, he was invited to contribute, on an ongoing basis, to the CITMA & CIPA Community Designs Handbook, which is published by Sweet & Maxwell and a valuable reference for IP attorneys.
Listed skills include Patents, Patent Preparation, Patent Drafting, Patent Portfolio Management, and 10 others.
